You need to read this speech.

Shonda Rhimes, creator of Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice and Scandal, accepted the "Diversity Award" at the Directors Guild of America Awards in Los Angeles over the weekend, along with Scandal's executive producer Betsy Beers. And she gave a blisteringly brilliant speech while doing so:

"When I heard I was getting a Diversity Award, I was really, truly, profoundly honored. I began to get calls and I was asked to comment on the award. Asked how good I felt about the award. Asked if it made me feel like I was doing the right thing. Asked if it had been a struggle making diversity happen on my cast and crews. While I'm still really and truly profoundly honored to receive this award, I was also a little pissed off. [And] so was Betsy. So over many, many, many bottles of wine we discussed this."

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"We're a little pissed off because there still needs to be an award. Like, there's such a lack of people hiring women and minorities that when someone does it on a regular basis, they are given an award... It's not because of a lack of talent. It's because of a lack of access. People hire who they know. If it's been a white boys club for 70 years, that's a lot of white boys hiring one another. And I don't believe that that happens out of any specific racism or sexism or prejudice. People hire their friends. They hire who they know. It's comfortable. You want to be successful, you don't want to take any chances, you don't want to rock the boat by hiring people of color because, well, look at us. Both Betsy and I like the world that we work in to look like the world that we live in. Different voices make for different visions. Different visions make for something original. Original is what the public is starving for."

Rhimes concluded her comments on a positive note, thanking the Guild for "[recognizing] a problem and trying to fix it...which I think is kind of badass." Entertainment Weekly reports she and Beers then left the stage to a standing ovation.